Key Environments Flashcards
Voiceless Consonants
Facilitated at the end of syllables or words
Example: bit
Alveolar consonants
Facilitated before [i]
Example: tea
Velar consonants
Facilitated at the end of a syllable or word, or next to [u] (oo)in the same syllable
Example: peak and Luke
When is /k/ in a key environment
Facilitated in syllable final position after [u] (oo)
Examples: duke
Voiced Consonants
Facilitated before or between vowels
Examples: bee, diver
where is [sh] facilitated
[sh] is facilitated next to [u].
Examples: bush and shoo
Where is [s] facilitated?
[s] is facilitated before [i] or in a consonant cluster containing [t]
Example: leaf
Where is [r] facilitated?
Facilitated before [i] or in a consonant cluster
Examples: read, greet, tree and dream
What is the key environment for [h]?
When making word-initial vowels without a hard glottal stop
Example: eat as heat
Two word phrases
A word initial vowel in the second word facilitates migration of a a preceding word final consonant into word initial position
Example: it is as i tis
Closing a syllable with a consonant
A word in which the word initial and word final consonants are made at the same place
Examples: King and beep
